Next General Election in Pakistan and PTI Party Position

 Next general elections in Pakistan are scheduled to take place in 2013 if current government completes its tenure and all political parties are already very active on ground in preparation for the elections. With a high rise in unemployment and inflation, with poor law and order situation and all sorts of internal and external problems; PPP led coalition government is having a very low graph in public and public sentiments have gone too much against the government making it favorable for other parties.

PTI Party Position:

Imran Khan's led Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf has emerged as a great political force and a viable third force in the political atmosphere of the country. PTI continues to show huge public support and street power in its massive rallies in different parts of the country. PTI tsunami got a momentum after its historic jalsa in Lahore on October 30, followed by another historic rally in Karachi on 25th December. Both rallies were attended by hundreds of thousands people and these rallies totally changed the political landscape of the country. After these two rallies, a large number of political heavyweights joined PTI including Javed Hashmi, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Azam Swati, Khursheed Kasuri, Sadar Asif Ahmad Ali, Khan Muhammad Hoti, Jehangir Tareen, Iftikhar Gilani, Masood Sharif Khattak, Awais Laghari, Jamal Laghari, Zafar Iqbal Waraich, Inam Ullah Khan Niazi, Ishaq Khakwani, Dr Azhar Jadoon, Sardar Idrees, Sardar Yaqoob, Usman Abbasi and dozens of other notable political stalwarts. 

 Journey of political activities of PTI continues with a growing momentum and PTI managed to hold massive rallies in various other parts of the country including Mardan, Haripur, Abbottabad, Mianwali, Sialkot, Bhakkar, Chicha Watni and then in Quetta--the capital of Balochistan. 

PTI has also managed to come forward on technical aspects with a series of policy seminars on some key national matters including energy crisis and its solutions and local government system. PTI Chairman Imran Khan has also approached renowned Atomic scientist Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan to formally request him to join hands with PTI. AQ Khan has agreed to patronize PTI. PTI has also managed to induct some great minds like Asad Umar in its partyfold who have a huge professional experience. 

Looking at all the political activities of PTI and the way PTI is doing mass mobilization and a well organized membership campaign, chances of a political landslide by PTI are quite high. PTI has become most popular party of Khyber Pakhtunkhwah not only in Pashtun belt but also in Hazara division. PTI has also become very strong in Southern Punjab after joining of great political leaders like Shah Mahmood and Javed Hashmi. In northern Punjab too, PTI is gaining huge momentum and PTI is expected to have a historic rally in Rawalpindi in May which may bring a great change in North Punjab politics. However, PTI has yet to work very hard in Sindh and Balochistan to give a tough time to political giants like PPP and PML-N

PTI Popularity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwah and Expected Seats in Next General Elections

 After a historic jalsa in Lahore on October 30 and then another historic jalsa in Karachi, PTI has managed to get a huge attention of political stalwarts from all parts of the country including Khyber Pakhtunkhwah and hundreds of notables from different constituencies of Pakistan from all four provinces have joined PTI. Party was already enjoying a good popularity in general public due to it's clear and just stance on all issues of national and international levels including war on terror, corruption, judiciary and FATA. 

 Looking at the current situation, PTI is the most popular party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwah where the graph of PTI has risen very high. In different districts of KPK, huge number of electables have joined PTI. Most prominent politicians from Khyber Pakhtunkhwah who have joined PTI in recent past include Khwaja Khan Muhammad Khan Hoti from Mardan who is ex-Federal Minister and was previously affiliated with ANP, Pervez Khattak who was affiliated from PPP Sherpao and has recently resigned from national assembly to join PTI, Azam Swati who was senator of JUI from Mansehra, Sardar Yaqoob Khan who was associated with PML-Q and is ex-deputy speaker of National Assembly, Aman Ullah Khan Jadoon who was from PML-Q and remained Federal Minister for Petroleum and belongs to district Abbottabad, Sardar Idrees who  served as provincial minister in MMA era and also belongs to District Abbottabad, Raja Amir Zaman who belongs to Haripur and was ex-Tehsil Nazim, Iftikhar Jhagra ex minister from Peshawar, Masood Shareef Khatak ex-IB chief who was earlier in PPP and belongs to Karak. 

The list of political leaders who have joined PTI doesn't end here and it's too long but this post covers only the key leaders who became part of PTI recently.  From all this, it's expected that PTI will be able to grab majority seats of both national and provincial assembly from Khyber Pakhtunkhwah in next general elections.